Nakajima Kento

Nakajima Kento is a Japanese actor, singer, and entertainer born in Tokyo. He's a former member of the idol group Sexy Zone and is signed to Johnny's. When he was in elementary school, he became interested in Johnny's after listening to Shuji to Akira's "Seishun Amigo" for the first time. He auditioned…

Ifukube Akira

Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube. The origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood…

Koizumi Takashi

Koizumi Takashi worked as an assistant director to Kurosawa Akira in “Kagemusha”, ”Ran”, “Madadayo”, etc.. His directorial debut "After the Rain" (2000) (screenplay by Kurosawa Akira) has won the best picture prize of the 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize, which is followed by well-made cinemas…

Hayasaka Fumio

Hayasaka Fumio is a Japanese composer born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year…

Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Tsunogae Kazue

Tsunogae Kazue was a Japanese actress born in Shizuoka, Japan. She was married to Emoto Akira.

Terao Akira

In 1966, he debuted as a bassist of Group Sounds band, The Savage. As an actor, he debuted as Kenichi in Chikadô no taiyô made, a film directed by Kei Kumai in 1968. Terao was born in Yokohama (Kanagawa prefecture) in Japan, son of the actor and film director Jukichi Uno. He was married to Bunjaku…

Kurosawa Toshio

Kurosawa Toshio is a Japanese actor and singer from Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Best known for his role as Ashio Ryurei in "Lady Snowblood" (1973), he was a prominent actor in Japanese cinema during the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. First starting his career at Toho in 1965, on Kihachi Okamoto's…

Sudo Ken

Sudo Ken, born Sudo Kenjiro (須藤健二郎) in Azabu, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. He was also known by the name Sudo Ken (須藤建). He graduated from Waseda Jitsugyo School (早稲田実業学校). Sudo began his acting career in 1934 with the Theatre Antime troupe (劇団テアトル・アンチーム).…

Beat Takeshi

Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese comedian, television personality, director, actor, author, and screenwriter. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, abroad he is known almost entirely for his filmwork. With the exception of his works as a film director, he is known almost…

Mainichi ga Nichiyobi

5.0

Naoyuki Oki (Akira Yamanouchi), who works for a general trading company, returned to Japan after working at an overseas branch office for 20 years, but was soon ordered to transfer to the Kyoto branch office. Naoyuki…

Memories of You

6.8

University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live. (Source: TMDB).

Strawberry Road

6.0

Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrated from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural California and start a strawberry farm, slowly integrating themselves into the life of the community, which includes…

The Dragon Of Macao

2.0

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan…

Shin Mokuyou no Kaidan: Cyborg

7.4

Akira Kaido, a high school student, was seriously injured in a bomb terror while studying in the United States. However, he returned to Japan as a cyborg that had a mechanized whole body. Although he usually lives…

Breakthrough for Change

Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are four members of their high school's track & field club. At the time, they had their opponents' respect, but over many undistinguished years, they've realized they're close to turning…

Unfair: The Special - Daburu Miningu Rensa

7.1

Detective Mochizuki Akira, who was kidnapped as a child, still goes for regular counselling sessions at the recommendation of Tachibana Kyoka, a physician of the police hospital. One day, a creepy doll addressed to…

The Uzukawa Village Incident

7.4

The doctor Iwamori Akira’s wife Hitomi has gone missing. He visits her hometown of Uzukawa Village together with their daughter Aiko to search for her. While the two of them are staying there, heavy rain hits the…

No Regrets for Our Youth

7.4

In Akira Kurosawa’s first film after the end of World War II, future beloved Ozu regular Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie, the only female protagonist in Kurosawa’s body of work and one of…

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill

7.8

Akira, a legendary assassin known as the Fable, lives quietly with his partner Yoko as siblings, working part-time at the design company Octopus. CEO Takoda and employee Misaki are unaware of his past. Meanwhile, Utsubo,…